Introduction ………………….. Pag.3

The Beginning………………… Pag.4

The 60’s………………………. Pag.5

The 70’s………………………. Pag.8

The 80’s……………………….. Pag.10

The 90’s………………………... Pag.13

Present Day…………………….. Pag.15

Conclusion……………………….Pag.16

Introduction

One of the reasons I wanted to do this paper was the fact that my life, basically, is surrounded by music.

Whether it’s a song, or the history of the artist that wrote that song, or even the pack of cigarettes the a known artist was smoking during it’s first years in music college; my life is surrounded by music.

So I started thinking of the power that music has over me. And then, I remembered that I’m not that special.

I’m just one teenager in six billion people; so, if music had a very big impact on my life, wouldn’t it be fair to speculate that it had a similar impact on a larger scale?

Over the last forty or fifty years music has been one of the

“Live AID” was born. It hosted some of the biggest names in music back then and it helped raise one of the largest sums of money that were passed on to charity in history

The youth was still the main buyer/consumer.

For every headline there was a song by artists such as Bob Dylan, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, The Jefferson Airplane, and The Beatles.

Some topics in this essay:
Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Conclusion………………………Pag16 Introduction, Alternative Music, San Francisco, Television MTV, Christina Aguilera, Mickey Mouse, America America, Freddy Mercury, jimi hendrix, alcohol abuse, led zeppelin, john lennon, bob dylan, bands led zeppelin, bands led, political social, music music, world music, band called, biggest names music, artists bob dylan,